forestalling

Politicians across the South are sure to react with ever more draconian laws and policies aimed at forestalling unionization.

Should the initiative fall short of the 60 percent mark, the Florida Supreme Court apparently stands ready to hold that embryos and fetuses are “natural persons” under the constitution, forestalling any other democratic efforts to reinstate reproductive freedom, including IVF access.

That wet pattern has continued as winter has given way to spring, with this past weekend’s storm dumping up to 4 inches of rain in some areas — pushing Los Angeles to a new two-year rain total not seen since the late 1800s and forestalling any hope for a quick end to the rainy season.

Publication of these studies is far in the future, but in the meantime, the mathematical model offers a starting point for considering the feasibility and possible benefits of forestalling menopause in healthy women.

The next year, they walked out to kill a Democratic climate change–related bill, forestalling the passage of more than 100 other measures.